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Question 1 How do I use an new IP Address before the API Request is made?

Question 2 Is there a good way to test if this IP thing actually worked other than printing results of grabbed IP

I made a new file with list of IPs in each line and I grab the proxy using

 proxies_lines = open('proxies').read().splitlines() proxy=random.choice(proxies_lines)

I tried two ways to store the proxies

 https://000.00.000.00:0000 https://000.00.000.00:0000 https://000.00.000.00:0000 Also saw some posts of people storing them this way. Not sure which way is best? 000.00.000.00:0000 000.00.000.00:0000 000.00.000.00:0000

What I want to do with this code

  1. Iterate through my list of 7 stocks in stock_list
  2. Grab a new IP address
  3. Query the API with the stock ticker, API Key and new IP address
  4. Print out the results for the stocks.

I have all steps completed but #3 regarding adding the IP address.

This is how I have the for loop structured

for item in stock_list: stock_ticker=item keys=random.choice(lines) proxy=random.choice(proxies_lines) time.sleep(1) # To access the API base_url = 'https://www.alphavantage.co/query?' params = {'proxies' : proxy, 'function': 'OVERVIEW', 'symbol': stock_ticker, 'apikey': keys} response_data_overview = requests.get(base_url, params=params) data_overview_MarketCapitalization = response_data_overview.json()['MarketCapitalization'] # Print Results print("The Market Cap for {} is = {}".format(stock_ticker,data_overview_MarketCapitalization)) print("Proxie Used {}".format(proxy))

Is this the correct way of setting things up? When I run the code it prints out the market cap for 5 of the 7 stocks before stopping. If the IP rotation would work, than it would print out 7 / 7 results since I can only do 5 requests per minute for one IP address / key.

Side Rant

Apologizes in advance if this is a super nooby question. Learning coding and decided to go with Python as the first language last month. While taking Python classes on team treehouse trying to do a side project of building an open source stock screener with pre-built well established valuation formulas. Super early stages lol but progress is progress https://github.com/Jakub-MFP/FIRE_Dashboard

I'm a future Pythonista in training haha

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  • Looks like you're putting the proxy into the params, which is the data that gets posted to the server; instead, you need to pass it to requests.get() so that it knows how to make the request.

     params = {'function': 'OVERVIEW', 'symbol': stock_ticker, 'apikey': keys} response_data_overview = requests.get(base_url, params=params, proxies={'https': proxy})

  • Circumventing posted API limits is rude at best and a felony at worst. You should either make the requests at a slower rate (ie, less than 5 per minute) or get a premium plan with higher limits (or other negotiated, probably paid access).

    If this is a learning project, making the requests at a slower rate is probably the best approach.

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I guess your right, prob not worth the hassle. Still seems to be the same results

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